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...Egypt after Cairo jailed a leading political activist (the next day, Hosni Mubarak stunned the Egyptian public with a call for multiparty presidential elections). Rice executed a course correction on Lebanon, cooling U.S. denunciations of the militant group Hizballah, aware that the organization will almost certainly increase its clout in the May elections. And Rice quietly prevailed two weeks ago, when the U.S. backed European efforts to induce Iran to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for economic and trade incentives. Until that time, the hard-liners in the Administration had regarded the European efforts with a mixture...
There are enough issues in any one of the six HCCR committees currently meeting to keep the Faculty and Summers busy in the coming months. Now endowed with more clout to control their own fates thanks to the Summers controversy, we hope that the Faculty will feel secure enough to immerse themselves in the HCCR without keeping one eye on the President. There is much to be done to patch up the cracks in the foundation of our College—some of which may be permanent. But with a sturdier base, and with renewed striving to push the limits...
...effect the change necessary to remove these extremist elements from their religion—just as it took a people’s uprising in Lebanon to spur Syria’s nascent withdrawal. And as the representative of one million Muslims, the Islamic Commission of Spain has the clout to begin this much-needed purge...
Buckham shared not only DeLay's religious faith but also his audacious vision for harnessing the financial and political clout of business and conservative interests to carry out the G.O.P. agenda and increase its majority in Congress. DeLay offered lobbyists the best seats they had ever had at the table, a say in legislative and political strategy, on the understanding that they in return would pour millions into DeLay's favored causes and candidates. In addition, he threatened to shut out lobbying shops that employed Democrats. In Washington that seamless coordination between his office and the lobbying corridor...
Like the Harvard team, Cserny will enter tomorrow’s game with a little more clout than usual. That’s because she is the 2005 Ivy League Player of the Year, as voted by the coaches and announced yesterday...